Pumpkins and Journalistic Integrity

Writing this up now - since I've chosen not to write online or on the computer after 8pm. Of course I do have to make dinner at some point, so we'll see. I've tuna steak in the fridge, also butternut squash noodles - assuming they are still good, if so, I may just do the butternut squash, and some veggies with cheese, walnuts and pesto.

Speaking of squash, here's a photo of the pumpkins across the street from my subway stop in Brooklyn, which I referred to in a previous post:





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This morning on NY1 they announced that the Washington Post lost 200,000 subscribers since they chose to not endorse any candidate. (Or didn't endorse Kamala Harris and didn't condemn the Felonious Conman running against her.)

Then they announced Bestos response - which I've been debating off and on in my head all day long.

Here's the gist - he feels that endorsing either candidate or providing any endorsement is presenting bias. And shouldn't be done. He states why below:

"Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, “I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.” None. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one. Eugene Meyer, publisher of The Washington Post from 1933 to 1946, thought the same, and he was right. By itself, declining to endorse presidential candidates is not enough to move us very far up the trust scale, but it’s a meaningful step in the right direction. I wish we had made the change earlier than we did, in a moment further from the election and the emotions around it. That was inadequate planning, and not some intentional strategy."

I've been debating this in my head all day long.
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I don't know. I can argue it either way.

What do you think?

[I'm admittedly biased at the moment, because I'm pissed off at Amazon for not delivering my charger and making me anxious about utilizing their lockers. And if it were up to me, the Felonious Conman running against Harris, would be sitting in a prison cell at Rikers at the moment, not running for any elected office ever.]